vi, 265 pages 18 cm

The novel's plot is about an alternative black government existing underground at a fictional small black college in Texas called Thomas Jefferson College. In a scene near the end of the novel, the two main characters are dropped through a secret passageway into a secret underground chamber where a shadow government of black leaders met beneath the college. Disenchanted with the lack of legal rights for African-Americans under U.S law, this cadre of black leaders had plans to seize land in Texas and form an independent black nation

A reprint of the 1899 ed

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